Norwalk Gazette, Tuesday, July 6, 1875 · page 2

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Tuesday. July 6th, 1875.

. {The“boys” were unusually regardful of
Borough rules and. regulations both on Sat-
urday and Sunday nights. But at one sec-
ond past twelve on Monday morning they
opened their music “by the fiill band” and a
more infernal din of crackers, pistols and
cannon was never kept up and continued
till near the following midnight. All in all,
however, it seemed an enjoyable day.
There were fewer accidents than usual, no
fires, and less drunkenness visible than on
most former 4th's of July;

The day was universally observed asa
holiday by all classes. Business was sus-
pended, and the people turned out to enjoy
a gala day as best they could. There was
no public- demonstration, but every man
celebrated the day in accordance with his
own notions.-

The usual number of accidents occurred
from the explosion of crackers, use of pow-
der, fireworks, firearms, etc., yesterday.
The only wonder is that there were not
more, considering the general carelessness
of children in handling the same.

 

 

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A meeting of the Boards of Selectmen
and School Visitors,with school committees
was held on Friday night last. Various
bills were presented and promptly paidby
the selectmen. The apportionment of funds
to each district,-for the next year, will be
made at the next meeting.

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Aby-law has been passid by the Court
Of Burgesses prohibiting the throwing of
stones, gravel, rubbish, etc., in the harbor or
river within Borough limits, without li-
cense, under penalty of not less than three
nor more than ten dollars for each Ofi‘encc.

 

 

THE POTATO Buo.»The Colorado beetle,
which has been making a rapid and trium-
phant jourh‘ey eastward, has made its ap-
pearance in Norwalk, and will be sure to
attract much attention. Farmers will aux.
iously examine their maturing crops, in
constant fear of finding their "devastating
work begun. The bug is described as about
two-fifths ofan inch in length. Its head is
marked with a black triangular spot. The
thorax of the insect has two shortened
black divergent lines with six black dots
on each side. The wing-cases have five
black, lines each. It is said that in the
beetle state the insect doe; little damage to
the plants. But it lays a thousand or more
eggs on the potato leaves, three time's a
year. These hatch out in a very few. days,
and the young grabs begin to feed at once.
The grabs are pale yellow in color, rapidly
changing to orange and then to vermilion.
They become fully developed in fifteen
days, and then pass into the ground in a
pupa state, coming out again as true
beetles in ten days more. It is estimated
that if one pair Of beetles were to breed un-
molested, their progeny in a single season
would amount to sixty millions.

The only substance yet recommended for
destroying the'bugs is Paris green, a very
dangerous poison. The various species Of
lady bugs are said to be active enemies of
the Colorado beetle, but eternal vigilance
on the part of the farmer is the only sure
cure. The beetles hibernate under old
rotten timber, in grass, or bury themselves
deep in the ground, where they remain dur-
ing the winter. They issue from the ground
of their own accord between the first of
May and the middle of June, when their
work of destruction is. commenced wher-
ever they can find plantsof sufficient size
on which to deposit their eggs.

 

The Court of Burgesses personally is.
spected the proposed Belden Park plot
and were favorably impressed with the pro—
posed improvement. So rare an opportuni-
ty to adda very attractive feature to our
village ought not to be let pass, especially
when adjoining property holders are willing
to'pay for it.

 

The infant'department Of the First Con-
gregational church Sunday school, under
charge of Miss C. E. Raymond, enjoyed a
pic-hie in the woods in the rear of C. C.
Betts,on Saturday afternoon last. The wee
little things had contributed some sixteen
dollars in penny contributions, the past
quarter.

 

The whole amount required for the can-
cellation of the debt of the 1st Congrega-
tional society, amounting to some $18,000
has been pledged, and the first payment
will be made the present month.

 

'The little new harbor Propeller “Rover”
camenp last Saturday and charged her
boilers with borough water, took on board
some of our local celebrities ‘ and gaily
started off for a trial trip,but ran aground
ofi‘ Wm. ' Jenning’s where she remained as
dejected as an empty beer bottle till the next

' tide. '

 

 

As an instance of the remarkable decline
in horses, we may mention that Chas. O. C.
Betts purchased recently, of a Wall street
broker, a trotter, carriage, and harness, for
which the party paid $1,500 last year, for
.250. Betta has a promising colt however.
bred from the Earle “Dolly," for which he
wouldn’t take all he gave for the broker’s
whole establishment.

 

E. R. Seward’s contract for digging out
the harbor near the bridge» has been com:
.pieted. He has taken out about 16,000
square yards. There is yet nearly two
months work to be done between the Rail-
road bridge at South Norwalk and Jen-
ning’s‘dock and the mud digger has been
removed to that locality. The channel is
now 40 feet wide between these points, and
another cut Of twenty feet is to be taken
out, making the channel sixty feet. The
contract for digging under the last appro-
priation has been awarded to a Mr. Beard-
sley, of Bridgeport.

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Probably few men in the country felt so
much like celebrating the 4th as the Beecher
jury. They would be justified in getting
drunk and staying so foramonth if men
ever are. ,

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The Beecher trial is ended-now for the

college boat race! ‘

 

 

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A meeting of the Neptune club is to be
held at Treasurer Prowitt’s store, on Friday

evening.
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W. C. Street is raising mammoth heads

Of tender lettuce Of the Silver Quaker
variety.

 

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The Gazette building front shines like a
new trade dollar, having been treated to a
fresh coat of varnish. .

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Sealed proposals for the construction of a

sewer on Cross street will be received by

the Borough until the 10th inst.-
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Mrs. and Miss Tilton Of this place have
been spending several weeks at LougBrancli.

Mr. Tilton joined them on the 4th.
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The Catholics of Danbury turned out a
Sabbath-school procession, with the Ancient

Hibernian seciety, nearly a mile long.
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The ice cream trade on the 5th was very
large. NO wonder, when our citizens can
buy such gOOd cream at such low pricés.

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The display‘of fireworks last evening was
quite general throughout town. Several

private exhibitiOns were quite extensive.
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The halyards in the Gazette building fiag
stafi‘ having been torn out in a recent gale
Mr. Stanley Selleck climbed the pole early
on the morning Of the 5tb,and inserted new
ones. How is that for high for a dry goods
clerk l’ . _ . - 1

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National Bank of Norwalk.
Stiles Curtis, Esq, has been elected Presi-
dent of the Bank of Norwalk, to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the death of Ebenrzer
Hill. Mr. Curtis is one of our oldest and
most active business men, and will bring to
the discharge of his new duties, financial
experience and sagacily of the highest order.

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Our Catholic citizens were the only ones
to celebrate the 4th as a class. The socie-
ties assemblcd in the morning and marched
down to the church where the line was
formed in the following order :—
Stars and Stripes.
South Norwalk Etass Band.
St. Joseph’s Society Banner.
Flag. of Erin.
St. Joseph’s Society.
Star Spangled Banner.
St. Mary’s Society.
Flag Of our Union.
Cadet Banner.
Cadets, wearing badges.
Girls, in light dresses and sashes. .
About 150 children were in line.
On the march through the Bridge to the
Fair Grounds they honored the old Gazu'r'm
with three cheers and “music by theband,”
for which attention they will please accept
thanks. _

At the Fair Grounds there was avcry
large attendance and the day was passed in
the usual amusements. The Exhibition
Hall was cleared Of tables, and there was
abundance of room for dancing, while the
entire grounds were open for all manner Of
sports.

 

Another Monster Stone.

Some months since we published an ac—
count of' a monster stone forty ft. in length,
quarried at the Mine Hill Quarry, Roxbury,
Litchficld county. Mr. Mower, Supt. of the
quarry, now sends us the dimensions of a
stone quarried last Week which makes our
former monster 9. pigmy in comparison.
The new monster measures eighty-seven ft.
in length, six ft. in width, and one and one-
balf ft. in thickness, being of smooth surface
and the edges as square as if sawed out. If
they keep on at this rate we propose that
when the next Brooklyn bridge is built,
Mr. Mower sends them a single stone for the
entire span. This quarry will richly repay
a visit to any one interested in stone quar-
rying.

 

There is a prospect that the Lockwood
Mansion may be sold for a private Insane
Asylum. It would make. an admirable
property for that or any humanitarian pur-
pose. Thc State could not do better than
to purchase it for an institution for its Blind
now sent to Massachusetts.

 

Asuperb Oil portrait Of the late Capt.
Frank B. Smith is in Weed‘s window. It
is from the artistic brush of his sister, Miss
E. L. Smith, of Hartford, (formerly of Hill-
side.) and intended for the children of the
deceased. It is considered a very good'
likeness and is capitally executed.

 

On Thursday last the Independents play-
ed a match game Of ball with the Seabury
club of Stamford, on the grounds of the
former. The Stamford boys were rather
unfortunate, retiring at the close of the 7th
inning under a pretty heav‘ load—24 to 4.
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_ The well-known residence of Mr. Henry
C. Randle in Wilton, has been purchased
by the Rev. W. H. Kingsbury, of Terry-
town, N. Y. We understand that it is IO‘
be occupied as a Young Ladies Boarding
School. Mr. Randle will remove to Nor-
walk.

 

 

 

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An interesting game of ball was played'
on the grounds of the Independent club,
yesterday afternoon, between the Independ-
ents and a picked nine from South Nor-
walk. The latter made a fine show at the
commencement and played well generally,
but retired at the end Of the seventh inning
as gracefully as possible, with a score Of 22.
tO 11 against them. '

 

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A sister-in-law of Mr. Hutchinson, the
dam contractor of the South Norwalk
Water Works, was thrown out ofa carriage
on Main street, and somewhat badly in-
jured,on Sunday last. The servant girl was
driving and hitting the horse with the whip
the animal started up when both occupants
of the carriage lost their presence of mind
and reined the horse. into the side-walk.
Banks Morehouse was first on the ground,
as usual, and bad the injured lady removed
to his hotel and Dr. McLean sent for.
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Our new Fairfield County Savings Bank
has been remarkably successful, showing
the confidence the paling-gave in everything
appertaining even most remotely to the old
Fairfield Co. Bank. They have now more
funds on hand to loan than there is any call
for, a most unusual condition of things
Money is getting to be so plethoric'in our
Savings Banks that we hope to see them Of-
fering well secured loans at six per cent,
The way to induce‘building and business

 

‘ enterprises. is to reduce the current rates of

interest.

If the law passed by the legislature last
week is generally enforced, we shall look
for a tramp, tramp, tramping of the tramps

out of this State.

 

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We were favored with a hard rain early
yesterday a. m., which thoroughly laid the
dust, somewhat cooled the atmosphere, and
helped along vegetation.

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The reunion of the 17th C. V. is to be
held this year in this town, in August. Our
citizens are expected to provide a dinner
for the veterans, which they will cheerfully
do. '

 

 

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The Hillside B. ,B. 'C. and Starlights
played a match game Saturday 26th, on the
former’s grounds, which resulted in the lat-
ter club being lighted up tO the tune .of 19
to 10. '

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Hartford stock is going up again. Ina
game Of ball yesterday betwen the Bostons
and Hartford professional clubs, Hartford
was the victor by the unprecedented score of
7 to 0.

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The Independents play the Rip Raps, at
Westport, to-morrow afternoon. A carryall
will leave‘Gazette Building at 2o’clock,
sharp, in which persons desiring. can take
passage.

 

 

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The Nelly White returned from her ex-
cursion to Rockaway about 10 o’clock, p.
m., when the Danbury train lost no time in
getting up-the-road passengers to their des-
tination. _
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An unoccupied house on the Darien Turn-
pike, belonging to Mr. Lewis Raymond, of
Wilton, formerly owned by McMann, was
destroyed by fire early yesterday morning.

No insurance.
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. Dr. Thomas, of New York, removed a tu.
mor weighing altogether about sixty pounds,
from the wife of One of our citlzens, last
week. The lady is doing well and the pros-
pect of her recOvery is good. ~
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Supt. Hyatt made special effort to ac-,
commodnte the crowds yesterday which
thronged the Horse Cars. Fifty round trips
were made during the day, or one every

twenty minutes after 7 o'clock.
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Sam. Jobnsiug had the good luck, or this-
fortune rather, tO cut off his forefinger
foolin’ round a Velocity Lawn Mower. W m-
Waiter Price W. E. Dann Bartlett Taylor
Tucker Shepherd recommends this Lawn
Mower for hair cutting and says he uses no
other. He remarks that some of de white
brethren must look out for dose care how-
ebber. ' ‘

 

 

 

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“Quilts are things that are sometimes
takeh from the pinions of one goose to
spread the opinions pf another.

 

Memorial Chapel ofSt. Luke’s, Dar-ten.
On Wednesday, June 23d, this edifice was
solemnly consecrated by the Right Rev.
Bishop Williams. The service used on the
occasion was taken from the Mortuary Seré
vice of the Church Of England. A very elo-
quent and npp’ropriate address was delivered
by the Bishop.

This elegant structure was erected by the
filial affection of Benj. Fitch, Esq, the

founder of the Home for the Orphans of

Soldiers, as a tribute tO the memory of his
molhcr,whose christian life was indeed well
worthy of such a commemoration.

The Chapel is without doubt the most
chaste and elegantly furnished edifice of the
kind ever constructed in this country_
The interior is in good taste and reflccts
great credit on the skill of the architect, al-
though it cannot giveany intimation of the
elaborate elegance of the interior.

The principal window has a fine repre-
sentation of the Ascension of our Lord

is adorned with appropriate texts of' scrip

ture. This of course is the first object of
the visitors attention, but the large sheets Of
frieze marble which line the walls and the
medioeval structure Of thepavcuient are well
worthy of careful‘inspection.

Mr. Fitch' has already given evidence Of
his patriotism and charitable feeling, by his
readiness to relieve the wants of the orphans
of soldiers, but we venture to predict that
the erection of this splendid memorial
chapel will cause a responsive chord to vi-
brate in the bosom of every human being
who loves and veneia'es the memory of a
mother.

 

 

Has Anmvsn.—Last Tuesday night the
Colorado potato bug had reached Port
Chester, but early Wednesday mornings.
boss bug sat on. Win. C. Street’s garden
fence “pencil in hand” trying to cipher
out how the Beecher jury stood, while
“millions” of other bugs stood round wait-
ing to hear. Street is always ahead.

 

 

 

Hon. R. D. Hubbard Of Hartford, was in
town last week, looking after matters con-
nected with the Belden will case he being
professionally employed by the contestants.
As it is understood there is something over
three hundred thousand dollars in hand
cash, lying in bank, besides about an equal
amount of other property, involved in the
litigation,it is not probable that many of
the present generation will live to see the
case ended in the courts. The only thing
needful to prove one of unsound mind in
these modern days is to leave a large for-
tune for division among expectant heirs.

The “Louise” sailing excursion is still full
of mystery, and new developments are dai-
ly coming to light. It seems one of the
party stated to his wife, when he crept into
the house at 2 O’clock in the morning, that
he had only been to the lodge, and the first
the innocent creature knew of the frightful
dissipation Of her husband, out on the dark
waters of the Sound at midnight, was when
she read the truthful narrative in last week’s
GAZETTE. The wife of another excursion-
ist was horrified tO hear her liege lord mat-
ter to himself as he crawled into bed:
“Counted ninety-seven steamers goin’ up
Sound, hic, to-day, did so, an’ two’n ’em
had ’leven smoke-stacks, did, hie.” Which
was responded to in a shrill voice, “ And
where have you been all night, you
stupid dolt ‘3" “ Been down to gas-bic-bouse
helpin’ ’Anfor-El." Guess our reporter will
get at bottom facts pretty soon,for this
good Woman ran over and told Mrs. Jones
next morning confidentially that her bus-
band got poisoncd at the gas house helping
Hanford, and it made him crazy as a bed
bug all night.

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Fitch’s Home.

The school connected with this’institu-
tion, under charge of Miss Davis, has been
prepared by’ theenergy and assiduity of the
teachers for an exhibition of the progress of
the pupils in various departments,on Fri-
day, July 911i. We are informed that the
following programme will be followed on
the occasion :—“ Vocal and Instrumental
Music; Calisthenic Exercises; Tablenux
Vjvaht; Recitations and Readings; Es-
says.” On a previous occasion all were
both surprised and delighted with the
promptness and accuracy of the performers,
evincing not only the progress of the pllpIISS
but the constant care of the Principal which
made such improvement possible. We
therefore hope that a numerous attendance
on Friday night will manifest a just appre-
ciation of this laudable and successful et-
fort. Admission 25 cents. Children half
price. -

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Some miscreant, last night, entered the
premises of our senior and stole all Of his
garden hose together with one of those
pretty revolving sprinklers. Areward will
be paid for detection of the (Renders.

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, Volcanoes or Earthquakes.

Attention has been called recently to
these, and many ask or enquire as to
cause or causes, and apparently few Of the
present generation havcgivcn a thought to
the subject. SO far, yet as the combustions
appear on our continent, some are enquir-
ing, as perhaps apprehensive or fearing this
section may be reached, and we see no
cause to doubt it, as the combustion of those
enormous masses of bitumen which are
known to be deposited in the bowels of the
earth, produces volcanoes. They owe their
origin more especially to the strata of pyri-
tous coal. The decomposition or action'of
water upon the pyrites determines the heat
and the production of a great quantity of
hydrogen, which exerts itself against the
surrounding objects and at length breaks
them. This effect appears tO be the chief
cau'sc of earthquakes. But when the con-
course of air facilitates the combustion of
the bitumen and the hydrogen, the flame is
seen to issue out of the chimneys, vents,
&c., which are made; and this occasions the
fire Of volcanoes. There are many in an
active state on 0111‘ globe, independent of
those of Italy. which are perhaps most gen-
erally known.

The Abbe Chappc has described three
burning in Siberia. Anderson and Von
Troll have describcdthose of Iceland. Asia
and Africa contaiii several, and we find the
remains of these fires or volcanic products
in all parts of the globe. Yet when we read
of these as near as San Fancisco, and near-
er and nearer still, as Indiana, Ohio, &c.,
we begin to ask the cause with something
of alarm. And naturalists inform us that
all the southern islands have been volcani-
zed; and they are seen to be formed by the
action of these subterranean fires. The vi-
olent efforts of the included matter some-
times causes the sides 2f the mountain to
open; and this is the cause which has suc-
cessively formed the smaller mountains
that surround volcanoes. Montenuevo,
which is 180 feet high and 3,000 in breadth,
was formed in a night. The report of Dion
concerning the eruption of Vesuvius in the
reign of Titus, wherein the ashes were car-

 

' ried into Africa, Egypt and Syria, seems to

be fabulous, M. dc Saussure observes that
the soil of Rome is of this character, and
that the famous catacombs are sil made in
volcanic ashes. The various yolcanic pro,-
ductions are applicable to several uses’.

Pouzzolauo is of admirable use for building

in water and for hydraulic uses; when mix-
ed with lime it speedily (sets) fixes itself;
water does not effect or soften it, and it be-
comes continually harder. Chaptai has
proved that the oxided ashes afford the same
advantages for this purpose—they are made
into balls and baked in a potter-’5 furnace in
the usual manner. The experiments of
cbaptal mide at Selig, by the commissary
of the province, prove that they may be
substituted with the greatest advantage in.—
stead of pouzzolano of Italy.

Believing this may be of value in the
building of reservoirs and other hydraulic
works, it is submitted for consideration. R.

 

f‘Gentler sexff scygf the gender-Journal
“is a joke, and meant t’otiatter s’tid’tfiohif if! .

 

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Miss Merrill’s school; had a pie-hie, last
Friday. "
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Col. F. St. John Lockwood celebrated the
4th in Ohio. ‘

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Pond lilies now invite daily crowds at

ten acre pond.
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Col. Wilson, of Washington, is visiting
friends Down Town.

 

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Senator Ferry has returned from his trip
to Litclificld county.

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The public schools closed on Friday lust
for a vacation Of two niOnths.
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Pi'c-hics were in order yesterday, and
boa’ts and carryalls were in great demand.
Crowds .of people thronged the Bridge
Saturday night, reminding us of old times.

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There was apparently much less drunk-
enness yesterday than on the 4th last year.

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We are glad to learn that Edwin Hoyt of
New Canaan, is now rapidly convalescing.

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There was a large influx of strangers in

town last Saturday, who remained over the
Fourth.

 

 

 

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Mayor Daskam put on a number Of spec-
ial police last Saturday night, to serve over
the 4th. ‘

 

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The annual meeting of the Norwalk Fire
Insurance Company is tO be held on the
21st inst.

 

 

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The Harbor and Islands were full of ex-
cursion craft and 4th of July excursionists,
yesterday.

 

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Six new members were received on Sun-
day to the Communion of the lst Congrega-

tional church.
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The foundation stone for one Of the new
buildings Of Trinity College, Hartford, was
laid last week.

 

 

 

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Several runaways occurred yesterday, the
horses becoming frightened by crackers,
pistols, the baud, itc.’ '

 

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Rev. Mr. Hamilton “fired off” a little ap-

propriate. and justifiable patriotism in his

discourse Sunday evening.

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Mr. Jess Smith and quite a large company

of other citizens of Norwalk,leave for Sar-

atogu the last. of this week.
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Joseph Stebbins an old and respected
citizen of Norwalk, died at his home near
Winnipauk last Thursday night.

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The annual meeting of the Broad River

School District is to be held on Friday evc'

ning, for the election Of officers, «the.

Or
An excursion party of about forty, from

up country, enca ped on Compo beach

from Saturday to Monday evening.
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Miss Fitch, Down Town, recently arrived
home from Quebec, in which quaint city
she spent the winter with relatives.

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A woman named Byxbee fell overboard

from a boat, at the Gregory’s Point landing,

last night, but was rescued by her son.
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Quite a number of our citizens attended
the Yale commencement, last'week, inclu-
ding several graduates of that institution.

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It is the old, old story—Nine obstinate
men defeat a unanimous verdict that‘the

tlirec unanimous fellows wanted to return.
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One train out Of New York, on the N. Y.,
N. H. d: H. R. R. last Saturday afternoon,
had twenty-two passenger and two baggage
cars. '

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A mammoth lemon, raised by a lady in
Westport and presented by her to Mrs. Dr.
Lynes, is on exhibition at Prowitt’s Drug
Store.

 

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The Danbury trainsSaturday and yester-

day were much longer than usual. The

train up Saturday night was composed of
thirteen cars.

 

 

 

so

The venerable Rev. Nathaniel Bouton
attended the alumni meeting at the Yale
Commencement, last \Vednesdhy, and offer-
ed prayer.

 

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Robert Dale Owen’s credulity in the
Katie King and other spiritual matters is
accounted for. He has gone insane, and is

now in charge Of his son.
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The directorsrof the Housatonic railroad
company have declared a quarterly divi-
dend Of $2 per share on the preferred stock,

payable on the 10th day of July.
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. Lewis Hubbcll, the city lumberman
is doing his utmost to mitigate the hard
times and encourage house building by
selling lumber cheaper than ever before.
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The ladies of the let Congregational

society have in contemplation a sort of con-
tennial pic-nic tea party at Bett‘s woods, in
aid of their subscription to the church debt.
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. Cram has an Aldcrnev—a perfect beauty,
that gives two layers of cream, one on top
and the other lining the bottom Of pan.
Cram is a success on milk if he fails on wa-
ter.

 

 

 

 

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W. W. Gibson and C. C. Miner Of this
State, were successful in passing. both the
medical and academy boards at the recent
examination of candidates for admission to
West Point.

 

 

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J. D. Burger is building a staunch oyster
sloop on the dock Opposite the Lock-up. She
is 28 ~ fect keel by 12 feet beam. She is
plunked with Canada spruce and kneed
with native white chestnut.
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Price, Bates & Co. have just put up a
tower in front Of their marble manufactory,
for polishing machinery, The top would
be a good place fOr another fire alarm bell,
as the old one isn’t heard half the time.
Messrs, Geo. & Wm. H. Benedict have
manufactured and sold between three and
four thousand silver beaver summer hats
this season, So far as known they are the
only‘manufa‘cturers of this style of bats in

Connecticut.
' ———-—-—-.—¢ Q s—o»

 

 

A new paper has been started in Winsted,
called “ The News.” Henry A. Bills is ed-
itor and proprietor. ‘It presents a good ap-
pearance, and will help to keep things live-
ly up there whether the investment proves
a paying one or not.

 

 

l.)—.—- -
The New .York Evening Post moved into
the new and elegant Post building, last
week, and celebrated the eventby reducing
the price ofvthe. paper trOm five 'to three
cents. W. C. Bryant has been connected
with the paper a full half century.
'_‘~.<.p—.—_-
postal money orders for small amounts
did not pay at “”9131 rates, and the price
has been raised as follows; For any sum up-
to $15, ten cents; from $15 to $30, fifteen
cents ; from $30 to $40, twenty‘cents; from
$40 to $50, twenty-five cents.
——-———o—«0r-o——
The “Rover“ made a trip up town last
Saturday. The vessel is of good size and
seems well calculated for taking out small
parties, conveying passengers to Roton,
towing, etc. She ought to be able to do a
paying business during the summer, at least.
' T——~—-——o—4.r—Q~
The Cavalry Baptist phurph ‘cf New Ha-
ven cxtendedn unanimous call tomes. ‘H, ‘
M. Gallaher to become their pastor, at a
salary of $5.000. He has accepted,but pre-

 

fers to serve for $3,600, the sum paid the

former pastor. He is the well-known lec-
er. . ,. . .

 

 

 

5-.

Connecticut Veterans.

The experimental holding a general rc-
nnion of all soldiers, sailors and marines of
this State, isto be tried in Hartford, this
month. The encampment is to be held at
Charter Oak Park, commencing on the 201k
and continuing three days. Gen. Geo. P.
Bissell is chairman of the Executive Com-
mittee, which is a guarantee: of thoroughly
good management. The committee have
issued a circular from which we quote the
following :—-

Allparticipaling are requested to assem-
ble on the Park during the forenoon of the
20th, and organize themselves into the
various regiments, battery squadron, or de-
tachment, in which they were respectively
attached in s-rvioe, and to elect from their
number one to not during the encampment
as their commander. These commandants
to report and receive instructions from the
commander of the encampment, who will
be appointed by the executive committee.

During the afternoon of the first day‘s
encampment, it is expected that the re-
unions Of the various regiments, companies,
etc., will take place, thus leaving the second
and third days for such purposes as the ex-
ecutive committee may determine.

The State will furnish tents, blankets
and all necessary camp and garrison
equipage. It is expected that all will sleep
in camp, each one will therefore provrde
himself with towel, hair brush, or whatever
he may deem necessary for his own com-
fort. Good meals may be'procured on the
[érounds at a reasonable price, by caterers.

olt‘s Band will be in attendance, and
furnish the music.

Those Of other States, residing in Connec-

‘ ticut, intending to be present, are requested

to give immediate notice to W. C. Hunt,
Hartford, Conn.

On one of the da 5, a general review and
parade will take p ace, and it is expected
that several military companies of Hartford
and surrounding towns will take part.

Suitable hours will be appointed for the
gathering together of the Andersonville
prisoners, and also those who were confined
atRicbmond, Macon, Savannah, Charleston,
Columbia, and Charlotte.

Camp fires will be had evenings.

It is estimated that between two and
three thousand veterans will be present,
and a general good time is anticipated for
three days.

The only necessary expense in camp will
be the purchase of meals. The general ex-
penses will be met by voluntary contribu-
tion, an opportunity for which will be given
at the time, and no assessment will be
levied.

 

Time was, when a certain selcclmah in
Norwalk, lost his Office for charging 9. doi-
lar and a quarter for a day’s service render-
ed the town, when a dollar was the ruling
rate for a day’slabor. He never was able
to regain any official position and died in
disgrace and all on account of that extra
quarter. Then we grew so that our public
servants dared to charge two dollars. We
grew space, and appraisers called out to
assess benefits and damages for our Borough
improvements were so audacious that they
scandalized themselves to the extent of de'
manding five dollars for such service. The
doubling up of everything during the war
made it an easy and agreeable thing to
raise the fire to ten dollars per day for
appraising duty! But it will astound our
tax payers to be told that lately the
Borough has been compelled to pay cer-
tain appraisers twenty/flee dollars per day
for assessing benefits and damages, and
this too while scores of “our most respected
citizens” are proclaiming their willingness
' to serve the public for nothing.

W

Show 85- 'l‘ulleriliave closed a contract
with John Keena for a new house on School
street.

 

 

 

'.

And now it is P. M. Dunbam of Bridge-
port, that Mayor Daskam is curing with his
Glen Flora Water.

 

 

.,

Didn’t the Hon. Wm. Walter Phelps, take
unnecessary trouble to give his late Con-
gressional colleague, S. W. Kellogg, an un-
timely and uhgentlemanly dig in the ribs at

the late college reunion at New Haven.
0

NEW BOOKs.—“Dead to the world, or Sin
and Atonement,” is one of the latest of
Gill’s Home Novels. It is from the German
Of Carl Detlef ,and the scene is laid in
' Russia. Cloth, W. F. Gill & 00., Publishers,
BostOn. For sale by'A. Selleck.

“The Romance of an Honest Woman,”
by Victor Cberbuliez,ot Gill’s Home Novels,
which can be found at Selleck’s. The other
novels of the series can also be had at the
same place, and something can be found to
suit each individual taste. These books
nrejust about the rigli size to take on sum-
excursions.

“The Womanof Fire,” by Adolphe Belot,
is the taking title Of a short novel, issued by
the same publishers. As the name indicates
it is of the sensational order. Paper covers.
To be obtained at Selleck’s.

 

 

 

The colored people bad a pic-hie at the
Bedding Grove yesterday, and an immense
crowd Of the brethren and sisters were on
hand; literally indeed, “the woods were
full of them.” .

..._.____.

Something decidedly new and novel in
the literary world is the venture of Messrs.
Donnelley, Lord 8: Co., Chicago. This firm
has attempted a great improvement upon
the “ dime novel,”'aiming tO give the works
of the best authors in place of trash, in pop-
ular form, and at a wonderfully cheap rate.
They issue a novel semi-monthly,'uhabridg-
ed and unaltered, neatly printed from good
sized type, for only ten cents; or, four num-
bers can be had once in two months, bound
together in paper covers, for only‘BO cents.
The first volume contains the “ The wan-
dering Heir," by Chas. Reade; “ The Gold-
en Lion Of Granpere," by Anthony Trol-
lope; “ The Treasure Hunters,” by Geo. W.
Fenn; and “Tom Brown’s School Days,"
by Thos. Huges, M. P.,—and all for 50 cts.
Such a work ought to run the “ dime nov-
els out of existence.” We presume they can
be had at most Of the news Offices.

 

 

Prowitt‘s Soda and Beer Fountain isabout
the most popular of anything in town now-
a-days.

-——--.—s.

At the annual meeting of the judges of
the superior court, held at Hartford, last
Tuesday, the following appointments were
made for Fairfield and Litcbfield counties:

Fairfield County—Clerk, H. T. Blake; as-
sistant, S. B. Sumner; attorney, J._H. Olm-
stead (holds over.)

(Litcbfield County—Clerk, W. L. Ransom;
assistant, G. M. Woodrufi'; attorney, J. M.
Huntington (holds over.)

Fairfield County—Civil Term—Culver,
judge, fourth Tuesday in August; Granger,
iudge, third Tuesday in October; Beardsley,
judge, first Tuesday in December; Hitch-
cock, judge, firstTuesday in J une.

Criminal Term—Foster, judge, first Tues-
day in August- Hitchcock, judge, third
Tuesday in Ge ober; Culver,‘ judge, third
Tuesday in February; Sanford, judge, first
Tuesday in June. - ' _ '

Litcbfield County—Martin, judge, third
Tuesday in September; Hitchcock, judge,
first Tuesday in November; Beardsley,
judge, fourth Tuesday in January; Sanford,
judge, second Tuesday inApril.

 

 

A rather singular scene occurred at the
depot Friday afternoon. A lady was going
by when a entleman stepped out and said
to her: “ ow’d do !" extending his band
and smiling cheerfully. “ I beg pardon,"
said she, looking hard at him; ‘.‘ you have
the advantage of me.” “ Why, don’t you
know me it” be asked, amazed. “ I can’t re-
member you,” she said. “ Why I used to
be your husband—John Augustus Hender.
son, you know.” She remembered him.

‘ ' Danbury News.
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.‘§My husband ‘xvas poetical,” said the
widow, and often expressed a Wish to‘die iii
the dernal solitude; soothed by ' the‘rbytb:
mic melodies of nature’s uutteraiile harmo-
nies, and yet he wiis killed by the explosion
Of a can Of kerosene." He was not insured.

Deacon Shaw, of Plymouth. Conn., had a
party, at which there was dancing. The
Rev. Mr. Center, his pastor, accused him of
giving a ball. The deacon called the
preacher aliar, and the church has conse-
quently expelled him. It is perilous to talk
about a Plymouth pastor ‘

A. near-sighted Boston man was lately
riding in a sticet'car when a. lady Opposite
)OWBLI to bitty. flowing-ped the bow. raised
his bat, smiled sweetly, and was just won;-
dering who she was when she came over
and wbis ered in his ear: “Oh I I’ll fix you
for this 0 d,man i" Then he knew it was
his wife. '

 

 

CITY NEWS.

 

Br our: ' LOCAL REPORTER.

 

Tasmania—All is quiet, the dust in Mar-
shall and Water streets has been ‘ laid” by
the late copious showers of Croton from the
clouds, business has resumed its loveliness,
with the glorious expectancy that the city
fathers will clo’s.e up 'tbeir. business on
Thursday night.

WEDNESDAY.—The sky is overcast with
clouds of disappointed hopes. The atmos-
phere rcsouuds with the echo “Twenty-
ninc," only “Twenty-nine." l"l‘lie commit-
tee report that said John Smith had a legal
right to vote and that his name being omit-
ted fi'om the poll list should not deprive
him from voting, and had such vote been
secured and counted there would have been
a tie.” What a pity.

The various fairs and festivals were closed
during last week by the Congregational and
Methodist societies ’holding strawberry fes
tivals in Military hall. Success attended
them, besides ,very pleasant gatherings;
each received about $30 net, fora library
fund. ,

Tnnusn.iv.—Thc City-hall and Truck-
house is about completed and will be occu-
pied by tbc City Fathers to night, to close
up the year’s business. Bills against the
city are in plentiful supply, but borrowing
money is easy now there is a prospect of
croton water.

Scarlet fever has broken out in several
placesiu the city. It does not enter the
houses, but is “seated” on several of the
house stoops and verandas on Main, Wash-
ington and other streets. "

Furnav.-—Tbe last meeting of the Com-
mon Council of the city was held at the new
room, City-hall, last evening. Present—all
the members except Councilman Quintard,
who was detained. A large amount of
routine business was accomplished, and all
the newly elected counciImen were sworn
in--some sharp words given in regard to
several bills against the city—a vote of
thanks given to the city clerk and senior
councilman Guyer, to which he feelingiy
i'eplied. Adjourned sine die. _

If John Smith had voted, such is the
earnest cry; and, had his vote been counted,
there would have been a tie.

A pleasant gathering was held at the
Franklin street Union School, on Friday,
the close of the spring term. All of the
teachers and scholars, with the school com-
mittee, and friends,werc present. After
various interesting exercises had been at:
tended to, Messrs, Adams, Crofut and El-
well were called upon tO speak, but de-
clined. when Rev. Mr. Simonson was called
upon tO deliver an impromptu valedictory,
which he did with grace and aptness. The
scholars of Miss Booth’s room manifested
their appreciation of her as a teacher in a
very “street" manner. Very little change
will be made in the corps Of teachers. Miss
Alida Ball succeeds Miss Booth who has re-
signed.

George Seymour has cut ‘503 pounds of
marketable asparagus from a plot a little
less than forty feet square. The crop was
all out within a space of five weeks. . Can

any one equal this? . "

Bob Bones says they needn’t poke fun at
him because he has devoted his life to illus-
trating the evils of a too limited use of cold
water. He knows a dozen fellows from
lawyer, parson, doctor, down to laymen,
who can drink him stone blind, and then
walk straight over to the drug store and
sit on the steps, just as if they’d never
smelt benzine, and only indulged in Glen
Flora Spring Water. Bob says they can’t
fool him, for he knows where the critter is
kept in South Norwalk as well as the best
Oftbem. ‘ '

Mr. Seymour has a new seedling straw-

' berry as yet unnamed, which for size of

leaf and vigor of growth exceeds anything
yet produced. We expect to see him rais-
ing strawberries as large as triumph toma-
toes before hc quits his propagations. ' A
basket of his “Monarch of the West” straw-
berries weighed a pound, and all measured
nearly five inches in circumference.

There are so many standing around, who
consider themselves experts in pipe laying,
that the strife for the office of superintend-
ing the trenching and laying down of water
mains, promises to be very exciting. As
ex-Mayor Ely is the largest tax payer and
has got to put more money into the Huckle-
berry pond than anybody else, he is just
the man who ought to be selected for this
duty. He knows what’s what and is just
the one to see that the city gets its money’s
worth. Moreover, he has the leisure so
that he could and would faithfully attend
to it.

 

VEGETA B I. ES.

It appears [tom the experiments of Pries-
ley, Ingehbousz and' Senucbier that plants
absorb the azotic part of the atmosphere;
and this principle appears to be the cause
of the fertility which arises from the use of
putrifying substances to the plant.

Vegetables cannot live without air, and it
is ascertained that plants or vegetables ab-
sorb the carbonic acid when in small quan-
tity. If in large quantity, it is fatal to them.
_ Light is almost absolutely necessary to
plants. In the dark they grow pale, lan-
guish and die. The tendency of plants to-
ward the light is remarkably seen in such
vegetation as is affected in a chamber or
place'where the light is admitted on one
side only, for the plant never fails tO grow
in that direction.

It is ascertained that the processes in
plants serve, like those in animals, to pro-
duce a more'equabie temperature, which is
for the most part above that of the atmos-
phere Dr. Hunter Observed, by keeping a
thermometer plunged in a hole made in a
sound tree, that it constantly indicated a
temperature several degrees below that of
the atmosphere. The same philosopher has
Observed, that the sap which, out of the tree,
would freeze at 32°, did not freeze in the
tree, unless the cold was 15 3 greater.

The vegetable heat may increase or di-
minish by several causes, of the nature of
disease; and this may become perceptable
to the touch in very cold weather according
tOBufi‘on.

The principles of which vegetables are
composed, if we pursue their analysis as
far as Our means have allowed, are chiefly
carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Nitrogen is
a constituent principle of several, but for
the greater part in small quantity Potash,
soda, lime, magnesia, silex, aluminn, sul-
phur, pborphorus, iron, manganese and muti-
alic acid, have been recorded in the num-
ber, tire—[Annals de Cbihnie Xxx—67.
.a—‘—-——‘—

George Washington may have been a
very smart man, but any stupid boy can
get ahead Ofbim by buying a. three cent
postage stain.

A little girl learning hcr Sabbath School
lesson, repeated to_ her mother the text, “It
is better to trustin the Lord than to put
Confidence in printers."

Being consonant with each. other, John
Pulzisksoboiskwinchinskiu, and Julia Solos-
kiminncwinnebis. were married at South
Bend, Indiana, last week.

An Illinois woman who wanted to go tO
a masquerade party as Mary, Queen Of
Scots, looked through the Bible to ascertain
how thecbaracter was dressed.

The Connecticut Stock Breeders associa-
tion announce $36,000 in premiums for the
fall meeting at Charter Oak Park, Hartford,
on August filst, September lst, 2d, and 3d.
The premiumns amount to $5,000 more
than last year.

The independent journais are getting sus-
picious df‘ one another. The ‘Cincinnati
Commercial says; “We suspect the New
York Tribune Of the deliberate determina-
tion to make Henry Wilson President of the
United States.”

The New York Evening Post‘s comment
on the performance'of the Ohio democrats
hits the nail whack on the bead. “They
have done all they possibly could do,” it
says, “to ensure the defeat of their party in
the national election Of1876."

A Montana editor bemoans the calami-
”‘1‘? of i874 in the following touching strain :
"burst hit Beecliér'business, then the grass-
hoppers, then the democratic victories, and
now an increased tax on whiskey. What
is this poor country coming to i”

 

 

The follotving essay vvns read by MR.
Anoxzo N. CLARK, of N orwalk, at the recent
graduating exercises at the State Normal
School, New Britain :— .

SPECIAL ENDOWIIIENTS.
When Paul Morphy plays seven games of
chess at once, and blindfolded; when young
Colburn gives impromptu solution to a math-
ematical problem involving fifty-six figures,
we are struck with hopeless wonder. Such
power seems by its very breadth Of grasp
to be separated from our mental Operations.
But when we further Observe that these
achievements are attended by little or no
fatigue, that this IS the play, not the tension
of' faculty, we are almost tempted to regard
it as a new kind, not merely 11. new degree of
intelligence. These men seem to leap tO
their results. The one sees through the
tangled relations of a complication of moves,
the other ofa complication of values, as
readily as we see the relation of two and two..
We seek in vain for the secret of this maste-
ry. It is as deeplyliidden from those who
have it as those who have it not. The
special bent is quite apparent in such emi-
nent examples, yet it probably exists more
or less in every individual.

The boy specially endowed Wlili the
mathematical faculty sees nothing but num-
ber and dimension. Another boy loves ap-
plication of force, builds wheels and mills;
his head is full Of cogs, and levers, and co-
centrics, and after he has gone out to his en-
gineering in the great machine shop Of a
modern world, the old corn chamber at
home is lumbcrcd with an abnTtdoned heap
of mysterious conirivanccs. Still another
is fired with the mystery Of form. The dog.
the cat, the wagon are favorite themes for
his pencil; his chalk and charcoal are on
all our fences; he puts an eye and 2. nose to
every triangle, and paints laces on the
wheels of his mechanical brother.

In all this there is something more than
ability. There is an attraction to these
themes and a fullness of inspiration seem-
ingly irresistible. Such minds run' with
great agility; they leap, they bound in these
chosen directions, while, if rudely forced into
another they become strange] y subject to de-
pression ; they lose their spirit and languish
and droop.

Varieties of endowment are, after all, only
so many different pitchers dipped in the
same great stream. Painter, musician,
mathematician, teacher, the gift is an acci-
dent of organization, the duty conferred by
the gift is an obedient, docile, loyal follow-
ing Of its leading, and adaptation of its op-
portunities to the highest ends, the rcsult'of
such loyalty will be prosperity and success.
This fact in human nature constitutes an
importantbutgreatly neglected element in
education. The question arises to the
thoughtful teacher, how to educate thor-
oughly and evenly and» yet in a manner to
develope this natural bent. The prevailing
systems of public education make little if
any provision for even the recognizing of
such endowments. ’

The system of bringing hundreds of child-
ren together into one great building, and
over-taxing, by numbers, the labors Of the
teacher, tends to suppress rather than devel.
ope special talent. Says President Eliot,in
a late address :—-—“Tbe common notion that
all children should be taught alike is emi-
nently unreasonable, when the children
have different inlieritances, prospects and
capacities. A large school tends to mould
them alflo one rigid pattern; but it is the
interest Of the community that each child’s
'Speciiil gift should be sedulously cultivated,
not obliteratct ."‘ '

The duties of life and our diversity of
gifts would seem to demand that such tal-
ents be recognized and properly cultured,
that in the forming, plastic period of youth
right conditions for growth and cxpansiOn
Of special endowments should be earnestly
soughtnhd eagerly coveted.
not, however, neglect to give due attention
to those faculties less endowed by nature,
all should be simultaneously educated that
the structure we erect may be supported and
strengthened by a well-proportioned de-
velopment of all the faculties.

The several branches in our course of
study should be arranged with due regard
to each other as well as to the great aim in
view. Such a course should be practical
that the youth may have something more
than a mere bundle of either superficials or
tbeoreticals to call to his aid when the stern
realities of life are crowding upon him. It
should be so taught that the special talent
upon which he relics for future prosperity
and success shall be properly disciplined and
strengthened by his preparatory course Of
training. But we should not be too rigorous
in our disciplinary, pruning process. We
should give the faculties sufficient room to
develope and expand, that ourlabors prove
not as futile and injurious as do those of
the vine dresser, when he follows iOO'liier-
ally the rules and theories ,be may have
adopted. He prunes and ties up the tender
growing plant that it may extend only to a
limited distance and in prescribed direc-
tions. But he finds out,tOO late, that his
systematic course of pruning and trimming,
however judicious, in many respects,
has failed 'to make provision for suffi-
cient freedom .on the part Of the plant
to expand as its nature required. Such
culture does not ,devclope the vine in
its full perfection, and child-culture involv-
ing a similar error of a disregard of the ex-
pi'eSScd demands of individuals will always
fail in developing tbe‘bigbest type of man-
hood. ‘

One of the greatest problems, therefore,
in the educational policy Of to-day, is the
adoption Of a systematic, comprehensive
culture, that shall be free from undue re-
pression and shall fully satisfy the demands

 

A change has taken place in the manage-
ment of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance
company of Hartford, and the company has
been reorganized with a capital Of $100,000
at $50 a share, Aaron 0. Goodman being
president and John H. Holcomb secretary.
.p—.———-—

'l‘hat drunken men have no rights which
streetcar companiesare bound to respect,
is in effect the decision ofa N. Y. judge in a
case where a company was sued by the
widow of a man who was killed by being
run over by a car, while intoxicated. The
court held that the accident resulted from
the victim’s intoxication, and not from any
lack of care on the_pnrt Of the company.

‘ '——-——.—1.._.____.

 

Scnnxcx’s Sm WEED Toxic—Iii the atmos-
phere experienccdhcre during the summer months
the lethai‘gy produced by the beat takes away the
desire for wholesome food, and frequent perspira-
tions reduce bodily energy, particularly those suf-
fering from the effects of debilitating diseases. In
order to keep a natural healthful activity of the
system, we must. resort to artificial means, For
this purpose Schenck’s Sea Weed Tonic is very of:
fectual. Atew doses will create an appetite and
give fresh vigor to the eucrvated body. For dys—
pepsia, it is invaluable. Many eminent physicians
have doubted whether dyspepsia'can be permant-
1;; cured by the drugs which are generally employ-
ed for that purpose. The Sea Weed Tonic in its
nature is totally different from such drrigs. It
contains no corrosive minerals or acids ; in fact
it assists the regular operations of nature, and sup-
plies lier deficiencies. The tonic in its nature so
much resembles the gastric juice that it is almost
itlcntical with that fluid. The gastric juice is the
natural solvent which, in a healthy conditions Of
the body, causes the food tO-bc digested; and When
this juice is not excreted in sufficient quantities,
indigestion, with all its distressing symptoms, fol-
lows. The Sea Weed Tonic performs the duty of
the gastric juice. when {he latter is degeient,
Sclieiick’s Sea Weed anic sold by all Djpuggistsf

 

For 25 cents one may buy a cake of "Constan-
tine’s l‘iiie Tar Soap,” and that will cleanse Out and
render healthy many affected skins. Salt Rheum,
l’imples, Chopped Hands, Frosted Feet, Burns
Fresh Cuts or Wounds. Diseases of the Scalp and
Skin may all be cured by it. Sold by all Di'uggists
and Grocers. 6mm! -

THOUSANDS SAVED.”

From the brink of the grave ; health and strength
given to thousands deemed incurable, by using the
famous Brazilian Plant, discovered by Dr. Evans
of the Navy. Radically cures D13 epsia. Liver
it Kidney Complaints, Nervous e ihty, Epilep-
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iii Alcoholic, T abeo, Opiammnd other sunrises
weakening the Brain and Nervous System. Send
stamp t‘or,circul ll'. Empire Pharmaceutical Co.,
737 Broadway, New York. .

 

 

 

We should.

of every special endowment. ‘

The Wrongl‘ude ot' the Meridian.

0n the down hill side of life which an old medi-
cal wi-iter quaintly terms “the wrong side Of the
meridian," when the functions decay anti the
frame gradually bends under the weight of years,
the system requires to be sustained under the bar-
den imposed upon it. Innumerable physical ail-
ments and .intlrrnities then'lpress upon it had been
in-carlier life a stranger. he surest and pleasant-
est support an solace of declining years is found
in Hostetter’s tomach Bitters, lon reco iced as
the most wholesome and agreeab e of ( 'finsible
stimulants, the moat patent of tonics and altera-
tives. The. aged andjnilrm ma place im licit
confidence in this inVi printing 0 ixir,'wliic not
only checks those malat ms to which elderly per-
sons are peculiarly subject,_bnt in a. measure re-
gards the encroachment of time upon the constitu-
ion.

 

Rellet‘ to an extent not hitherto attained is ex-
erienccd b those siifi‘eringfrom Bri ht’s disease,
'idney, bla der, and glandular comp hints. diabe—
tes. gravel, incontinucnce and retention of urine,
female irregularities, disturbed sleep, loss of ap-
petite, general debility, melancholy and maladies
of the urine-genital organs, by partaking of Hunt’s
Remedy, which ensures a return to perfect health.

Gillies’ Crushed Coffee.
“What delicious coffee you always have; where
do you get It?”sttys a visito . “We use Gillies’
Crushed Coffee. Java quality, ’ is the reply. All
Grocers sell it. 6m52

 

 

w nannies.

On Thursday. July ist,b Rev. Robert Bolton.
Charles Ia. Lockwood to cry A. Smith, both of
Norwalk. '
In Bridgeport, June 29. b Rev. Dr. A. M. 110 -
or, Mr. John A. Alexan er, to Miss Mary ‘-
Irsltto'll al‘l, (lit Brit-llgcpoflz. ,
n ‘a s i age has th F.F.\ .

Canaan, to Miss Josie S. Brc'wstcr. Vatson Of New
A]: Greenwich: $101629, b Rely. Mr. Treat, ileu-
rv . one an ‘ rote tall” to f . ‘
Hoimes,ali of Greenwich. a - r0 Capt CJleb

 

 

 

 

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In this town, J unc 25th, Kittie L. Johnson, aged
lycar, % days. June 25th, Robert Bouton, aged
4 years, 4 months, 27 days. July 2d, Joseph Steb-
bins, aged 70 ears, 9 months, 18 da s.

In Darren, one 30, James Seely enedict, aged
21 years, 6 months.

At; Greenfield Hiil, July 3d, Mary, older child of
Francis E, and Virginia. Chilton Taylor, aged 4
years and 5 months.

_In Bridge ort, J one 29, George B. Wikert, aged
5:» years. urie 30th. Edna. A.. Wife of Capt. i. D.
Foley, _of Walton, N. 8., aged 25 years. June 29th
Valentine Stark, aged 26 years. J ime 30th, John
O‘Connor, aged 65 years, 9 months.

In Danbury, June 25th, James Fincgan, aged 28
years. J une 27th, Jacob Von Gal, :1 cd 56 cars.
J nne 27, John Day, aged 75 years. Jaime 29th, La-
Villiil. Illenlehl, a ed 7; yegilrs. '

n ‘e e , one 7, l W. Vail aged 19 cars
5 months and 9 days. y ’ a y ’
yeIn Redding, J une 27th, Augustus Hess, aged 39
ars. .

 

 

 

 

NOTICE—NEPTUNES.

REGULAR MEETING of the Neptune Club
will .be held at the Store of Treasurer Prowitt,
No. 43 Main St., on FRIDAY EVENING. July 9th
at 8 o’clock. J. A. OSBORN, Sec’y. it

 

AI'I'EI),—-A situation, by a first-class COOK, by
n protestant woman. qu‘uirc of
l RANK FOSTER.

WANTED.

Respectablc woman to cook wash and iron.
None need apply unless well recommended,
' S. I}. S. BISSELL.

 

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NOTICE.

THE Annual_Meeting of the Stockholders of the
Norwalk Fire Insurance Company, will be held
at the Office of the Company, in Norwalk, at 9
O’clock, a. m., Jul 21st, 1875. '
By order of" the ircctors,
GEO. R. COWLES, Secretary.
‘ Norwalk, July 3d, 1875. 2t27

NOTICE.

THE legal voters of the Baoan RIVER SCHOOL
DISTRICT are hereby notified and warned
that the sauna meeting for the purpose of elect-
ing a. District Committee and other officers for the
ensuingbycar, will be held at the School House, on
I riday Pvenin , July 9th, at 8 o’clock.
er 0 er, .
JOSIAH KELLOGG, District Committee.

MRS. J. B. BETTS

REQUESTS all persons having accounts against
her to present the same for settlement. and
those indebted to her are respectfully invited to
call and settle their bills.
N orwalk, July 0th, 1875.

TO RENT.

HE Saloon on Main Street formerly occupied

by George W. Hooper. with or Without rooms

above; without fixtures. Possession given imme-
diately. 6 NOAH WOOD.

EW JERSEY MIDLAND RAILWAY
CO.——The undersigned first mortgage bond-

 

 

 

 

 

ganization which does not: meet our approval. de-
sire a conference with our associate bondshoiders
who favor a reorganization upon such basis as will
do justice to ourselves, and yet Will not load the
road with an indebtedness it cannot sustain. With
these lpurposes in view. we invxte a meetin of the
bond- of ers, to be held on- IVEDNESDA , July
it proximo, at 12 o’clock m., at Room No. 2. No.
152 Broadway, New York. We also invite those
interested to place themselves in communication
with us by sending their names and addresses to
either of the confirmed.

GEO. WILL BOYD, No. 152 Broadway.

SMITH ELY. J r., No. 103 Gold St.

ISRAEL SHELDON, Orange, N. J.

SETH D. MILLS, 21Nassnu st.

GEORGE W. POWERS, 8 West 50th st.

HENRY MARKS, 550 5th av.

And Others. -
J une 26th, 1875.

1875.

Harlem tit Go.

(1 a complimentary notice from
Committee of our late fair for the

 

who have rec _
the Discretion

FINEST SELECTION

CLOTOIIING

AND

[inn IURNISHING innit,

intend to keep up tlioirtradc by Offering during
the remaining season

Special Inducements,

ON ALL THEIR

Summer Cassiineres

/ . AND
Suitings .
AT A ‘

GREAT RFDIICTIIIN FRIIM THEIR
REGULAR PRICES!

$15 00 Pantaloons to order, at $12 00
12 00 u u s‘ u 10 00

10 00 u u u u 8 00

, 9 00 u u to s. .7 50
7 50 ct .“ 56 cs 6 00
Ready-made Pants from $1 to 7 00

Stylish Suitings.

$50 00 Suits, at $42 50
40 00 “ 35 00
30 00 “ 27 00
25 00 .“ 22 00

Ready-made Suits from $3 to 25 00‘

DUCK & MARSEILLES VESTS.

$4 50 former price, now $4 00
4 00 .t u 3 50
3 50 “ “ 3 00
3 00 “ “ 2 5O
2 5O “ “ 2 00
2 0.0 ‘* “ 1 65
5 00 Alpaca Coats, ‘9 4 00
4 DO “ “ “ 3 50
3 50 ‘6 ‘6 6‘ 3 00
3 00 “ “ “ 2 50

STRIPED GOTTOI SACK

CDATS 65 CENTS.
Alpaca & Linen Dusters at Popular

Prices.

Blue Flannel Suits as low as t I 2.
rooms is BOYS’ CLOTHING

in proportion.

Gentlemen’s Over 55 Under
Shirts, Drawers, 819.,
in large ijal-iety, Afuil line ol‘ ’
GENTS? FURNISHIIB 000089
adopted for the season, at popular prices.
We are determined to sell these

Goods so as not to carry any of
them over to next season.

HARLEM & (30.,

Next to A. 2]. Hoyt’s Shoe Store, Open
no ii ae Block W all street, Norwalk, ca.

. p_ s.—Cloths, Cottonades and Tailors’ Trim-
mings by the yard or piece. and no charge for ear.
wig-garments when the goods are purchased at
Offfs’lorc'i"" "“‘ " ‘ ' ”3| if " " ‘ '

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holders of this road, having noticed a plan of reor- ‘

GOLD LOCKE’I' LOST.
A Triangnlnr‘looket, containing a. family group
of pictures, was lost on Tuesday last. The finder
will be liberally rewarded by returning it to the
Jewelry Store Of A. JACKSON db BROTHER, Or
the GAZETTEOFFICE, 25tf

WThc party who borrowed a Cast Iron Garden
or Walk Boiler, will obligeithe owner by returning
it to his residence on Belden Avenue. . 2t?!»

lllsll. DIVIDEND, lIIth.

THE FAmFIELD COUNTY NATIONAL
BANK has this day declared a dividend at

Five 5) percent. on the capital stockfliayable'to

stock elders on and after July lot, 1845. Checks

Will be forwarded to all stockholders by mail.

Norwalk, Conn., June 18, 1875. _

3t2t; CHAS. H. STREET, Cashier.

 

Tin: ){niomn BANK or Normans, I.
Nouwahx, Coma, J one em, 1875. t

34m DIVIDEND.

THE Directors'of this Bank have this day do—

clared a dividend of Five (5} er cent. paya-
ble on and after the first day of uFIanext.
25 R. B. ‘RAU RD, Cashier.

 

NORWALK SAVINGS SOCIETY”
NORWALK, June 17th, 1875. )

BY vote of the Board of Directors, interest at
the rate of six per Cent. per annum, will be

credited to our depositors July 1st. 1875, and paid

to them on and after July 10th, for the current six

months. Per order,

3t25 GEO. E. MILLER, Treasurer.

STOCKHOLDEBS’ MEETING.

HE Fifth Annual Meeting of Stockholders of

Famrrnnn Finn lusuuaxcn COMPANY, will
be held at the ofiicc of the Com any, at South
Norwalk, on Tuesday, J nly 13th, 1 5, at 4 o’clock,
p. m., for the election of Directors, and the trans-
action ot' any other business proper to be done at
said meeting. Polls open from 4 t06 . m. Trans-

 

 

t'er Books Will be closed fiom J n] to July 13th
Inclusive. 2t26 II. II. T KNEE, Scc’y.
NOTICE.

SEALED PROPOSALS, stating price per foot,
writ be received at the office of the Court or
Burgesses. up to 12 o’clock, noon, of July 16th,
..nstant. for construction of sewer complete in
Cross Street, in the Boron h, from the mouth of
the present sewer to its on or at the river. .Said
sewer to be of cement pipe of not less thon eight-
ecn inches in diameter, an to be put: down under
the direction of the Borough Surveyor and at the
e to be fumished by him. Parties puttin r
in proposals Will include the excavation of can i
and fillingnn and the furnishing of all materials.
The right is reserved. by the Court; of Bar cases.
to reject any and all bids not deemed best or the
interests of the Borough.
Boron -h of Norwalk, July 3d, 1875.
W.‘B. - ENDRICK. Chairman of Com. on Sewers.

f
PROBATE SALE.

URSUANT to an order from the Court of Pro-
bate for the District of Norwalk, will be—soid
at Public Auction, to the highest bidder on the
15th day of July 1875, at 10 o’clock, in the orenoon
unless preViousl disposed of at private sale. so
much of the Rea. Estate Of Elbert Raymond, late
of Norwalk in said district. deceased, as will raise
the sum of $16,400 With incidental char es of sale.
.Sale to take place on the premises in salt Norwalk.
R’Efidii‘ikifrlhfiiil‘d ““‘° “‘9“

. a , - -

GEORGE ILRAYMOND, “m'msmtm-
Dated at Norwalk this 28th day of June, 1875.

White Straw flats

At Mrs. H. L. McLBAN’S,

Also at the Dry Goods
C. J. GBUMAN.

 

 

 

to he sold at any price.
Store of 2t26

 

FOR SALE.'

A Small Farm in Poplar Plains ,
Westport, Conn.,
CONTAINING Twenty Acres, with New House,

Barn and other out-buildings. Also, twolve
acres of Wood and Pasture land. can be bought
With the farm or separately. Fonarticulars ap-
ply to or address, E. S. M SFIED

. . Westport, Conn.

 

Thurston’s Ivory Pearl Tooth Powder
Is now admitted to be the best Dentrlfice known.
Used daily. it will keep the Teeth Sound, Clean
and White, the Gums Healthy, and the Breath
Sweet. It contains no acid or injurious substance.
cannot injure the enamel, and is specially recom-
mended to those who having good teeth wish to
preserve them. '

Sold by all Druggists, 25 and 50 Cents per Bottle.
3m'20] WELLS a ELLIOTT, 11 Gold St., N. Y.

 

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New emu, Gena.

malty.

ANDED upon it.

Every Ham we WARRANT; Sweet and Nice.

her; they are the BE

8.‘_Andrew It 00., 105 State“,

d'Ga-ocers go

1*.

ANDREW Jr. 00.. 105 State St... cure those
ANDREW at. co’s NEW HA

“NEW' HAVEN HAMS.”

NEW HAVEN IS FAMOUS FOR FINE PROVISIONS.

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till) lillilil RAKE.

ALSO

GBATES’ HAY
is .
gillard’s Tedders

AND THE

 

The above machines are all so well known among
Farmers they need no recommend. They are the
standard machines, and With the last year’s im-
provements the best ada ted to this section ofcoun-
try of any now in use. ‘Or_sale by .

ALLEN BETTS k JOSIAH KELLOGG,
NORWALK. M25

Sofie-things New.

NITIAL PEARL VEST DEMONS.
- ‘ _ At Harlem a: Co’s.

Y-LAW relating to Hafbor of Norwalk and
Normal]: River:
Be it ordained by the Court of Burgesses of the
Rom h of Norwalk.
. . That no person shall throw, place or put
or cause to be thrown, placed or put, any stones,
gravel, rubbish, or other substance, in or into the
.rbor of Norwalk or Norwalk River, so called,
Within the limits of the Borough, without -license
from the Court of Bargesscs.
Sec. 2. .Every person who shall be found guilty
of violating Section 1st of this by-iavv shall be
fined not less than three nor more than ten dollars,
for each offence, for the use of the Borough Treas-

 

 

fore passed contrary to or inconsistent with this
by-law are hereby re led
Passed and adopte
of said Borough at are
held July 2d, A. D.,18‘l . and upon approval I?
Warden of said Borough, directed to be pub s
as required by law.
Attest JOSEPH F. FOOT E,
Clerk of Court of Burgesaes.
Approved July 3d, 1875,
SAMUEL DASKAM, Warden.

by the Court of Burgesses
at meeting of said Court
the
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ISTRICT 0F NORWALK, ss. Probate Court
J nne 30th, A. D. 1875.

Estate of LYMAN S. FIN CH, an insovenl debtor
of Norwalk, in raid District, assigned in trust for
the benefit of his creditors.
The Trustee of said estate prays the appointment
of Commissioners to receive. examine and decide
upon the claims of the creditors of“ said Estate lie
nppointed at the Probate Ofiicc in Norwalk,
III said district, on the 31st (lay of J uly. 1975; at 9
o’elsck, forenoon: of which all gersons in interest
will take notice, and appear in: ey see cause, and
be heard thereon, and said Trustee wrll five pub-
lic notice thereof by posting a copy of t a order
on the public sign post in said. Norwalk nearest
0 place where said estate 15. in settlement. and
by pubiishin the same according to law in a news.

per printed in Fairfield County, at least twelve
3:” before said 3ist day of Jnllny. -
2m GEORGE A. DAN NPORT,~Judg -

corrmssronnns’ NOTICE
E. K. LOCKWOOD AND ISAAC DEMMON}

_ vs.
- Ozone: W.Hoorr~:n.

AIRFIELD‘ COUNTY, SUPERIOR coon.
JunoTotm,-1816. ii A i :';'t-.v . . l .
‘The‘BPN‘Eflbe ,‘iaavi g bgen appo utcd by i; .-
cflfl“ _ 9 “0, gm ,aco_ ittee in'i'“.
above 9 ti _ed‘ ., to sell'nli the interest of .-
saidGsoi-ge W. ooper in certain goods and cl
ties morgaged by him to the above named Lc
wood It emmon, hereby gives notice that he ' '
sell at public auction to the hi best bidder, .,
the 10th day of July [875, at 2 oclock, in the
ternoon, at the store ataly occupied by said Ha .
er,_in Main Street, Norwalk. a large quantity .
Household Furniture, to Win—Three stones. 1 ..
ranges with fixtures, thirteen tables with cast: “‘_.
cts., 57 chairs, 12 bedsteads and bedding, 20 lair 1H,
2 dozen knives and forks,6 dozen spoons,5 .i-zf.
trays, 22 table covers, 1* carpets,2pieces of 5....
cloths, 1 oyster box, 8 wash stands, 14 (10., mo.
bowls, pitchers, etc., one bar and fixtures, anti, .1
laige quantity of crockery, tin ware and fixtui r. :‘

 

 

 

Sale to take place rain or shine.
‘ - v . p ..‘_

CHARLES ADAMS, .
' Committee of the Superior (hurl
Norwalk, July 2421,1875. J .

 

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